netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/2] net/ipv6: Remove expired routes with a separated list of routes.

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Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2023 11:18:54 +0200
From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
To: Kui-Feng Lee <thinker.li@...il.com>, dsahern@...nel.org, 
 davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com, kuba@...nel.org,
 netdev@...r.kernel.org,  martin.lau@...ux.dev, kernel-team@...a.com,
 yhs@...a.com
Cc: Kui-Feng Lee <kuifeng@...a.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/2] net/ipv6: Remove expired routes with a
 separated list of routes.

On Tue, 2023-07-18 at 11:03 -0700, Kui-Feng Lee wrote:
> FIB6 GC walks trees of fib6_tables to remove expired routes. Walking a tree
> can be expensive if the number of routes in a table is big, even if most of
> them are permanent. Checking routes in a separated list of routes having
> expiration will avoid this potential issue.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kui-Feng Lee <kuifeng@...a.com>

There is a mismatch between the sender (Kui-Feng Lee
<thinker.li@...il.com>) and the SoB tag, please either change the sob
or add a From: header tag to fix such mismatch.

> @@ -2312,6 +2323,40 @@ static int fib6_age(struct fib6_info *rt, void *arg)
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> +static void fib6_gc_table(struct net *net,
> +			  struct fib6_table *tb6,
> +			  void *arg)

Here 'arg' is actually 'struct fib6_gc_args *', you can/should update
the type (and name) accordingly ...

> +{
> +	struct fib6_info *rt;
> +	struct hlist_node *n;
> +	struct nl_info info = {
> +		.nl_net = net,
> +		.skip_notify = false,
> +	};
> +
> +	hlist_for_each_entry_safe(rt, n, &tb6->tb6_gc_hlist, gc_link)
> +		if (fib6_age(rt, arg) == -1)
> +			fib6_del(rt, &info);
> +}
> +
> +static void fib6_gc_all(struct net *net, void *arg)

... same here.

Cheers,

Paolo